Comments on: Switching to Gmail, Again http://adamcaudill.com/2007/10/09/switching-to-gmail-again/ Adam's view on technology, software development, and world domination. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:54:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: Chris http://adamcaudill.com/2007/10/09/switching-to-gmail-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8033 Chris Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:29:22 +0000 http://adamcaudill.com/2007/10/09/switching-to-gmail-again/#comment-8033 You can save all that money by using gmail's IMAP function. Just set up a gmail IMAP account on your email client (I used thunderbird, but I can't see why it wouldn't work with outlook & co) and copy/move your email folder from the local folders to the imap folders on gmail. Preserves timestamps and even other things like 'stars' and 'replied' flags. No conversion of storage formats between different clients necessary. The folder names you use will even appear in gmail as labels thus further reducing the migration workload. Just be aware that the string length of labels is limited and subfolders will be converted to labels in the parentfolder/subfolder format, ie becomming quite long. Gmail will not execute imap commands that attempt to create such folders. Another thing worth mentioning is probably that you are mistaken if you think that the 'sender' issue is solved by using the google apps version of gmail. If you ever set up additional email addresses in one account (in the same way you did in the 'other' gmail) the 'sender' header will again be added with your account address in it. This a bit less annoying than the original issue (since it is a email@yourdomain.com rather than ...@gmail.com address) but still a sucker. I, for example, free lance for a number of different companies and pool all the work related email from all of them in my google apps account, say, jobs@mydomain.com Now these companies expect me to use their corporate email addresses to send email related to their projects and I wish I could send emails without letting anybody too obviously know that I am using a jobs@mydomain.com account to send it. Especially since obviously quite a number of people send email back to that account and not the corporate address there's supposed to use. Annoying. You can save all that money by using gmail’s IMAP function. Just set up a gmail IMAP account on your email client (I used thunderbird, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work with outlook & co) and copy/move your email folder from the local folders to the imap folders on gmail. Preserves timestamps and even other things like ’stars’ and ‘replied’ flags. No conversion of storage formats between different clients necessary.
The folder names you use will even appear in gmail as labels thus further reducing the migration workload. Just be aware that the string length of labels is limited and subfolders will be converted to labels in the parentfolder/subfolder format, ie becomming quite long. Gmail will not execute imap commands that attempt to create such folders.

Another thing worth mentioning is probably that you are mistaken if you think that the ’sender’ issue is solved by using the google apps version of gmail. If you ever set up additional email addresses in one account (in the same way you did in the ‘other’ gmail) the ’sender’ header will again be added with your account address in it.
This a bit less annoying than the original issue (since it is a email@yourdomain.com rather than …@gmail.com address) but still a sucker. I, for example, free lance for a number of different companies and pool all the work related email from all of them in my google apps account, say, jobs@mydomain.com Now these companies expect me to use their corporate email addresses to send email related to their projects and I wish I could send emails without letting anybody too obviously know that I am using a jobs@mydomain.com account to send it. Especially since obviously quite a number of people send email back to that account and not the corporate address there’s supposed to use. Annoying.

]]> By: Gabe http://adamcaudill.com/2007/10/09/switching-to-gmail-again/comment-page-1/#comment-7898 Gabe Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:04:40 +0000 http://adamcaudill.com/2007/10/09/switching-to-gmail-again/#comment-7898 Can't you just setup gmail as an IMAP account in outlook and then drag your old mail into a gmail folder - which will also preserve time stamps. Can’t you just setup gmail as an IMAP account in outlook and then drag your old mail into a gmail folder - which will also preserve time stamps.

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